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Happy Halloween!
What does the Gospel of Jesus Christ have to do with a Jack-o-Lantern?
So
this week one of our investigators asked if it would be ok for him to
carve a pumpkin during our lesson on Halloween. Of course we agreed and
also took it as a challenge to make the lesson an analogy about pumpkin
carving.
There are 5 principles of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ: Fatih, repentance, baptism receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost,
and enduring to the end.
Faith: It takes
faith to cut into a pumpkin. You have a hope that by taking a chance and
making that cut that you will be able to make something better than
what you started with. Faith is "a hope for things which are not seen,
which are true" (Alma 32).
Repentance: You have to clean out all of the pumpkin
guts. Repentance is the process by which we become clean and are
forgiven through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
Baptism:
The pumpkin has a new face. When we are baptised we are spiritually
reborn. (Matthew 3) We become something new. We make a promise with God.
He promises us blessings in return.
The Gift of the Holy Ghost: Our pumpkin gets a light
inside. The Gift of the Holy Ghost is baptism by fire or by the Spirit.
When we have it it is a constant light inside of us that helps us
choose to do good.
Enduring to the end: What would happen if we just
left the pumpkin out in the rain to rot or if we filled it back up with
guts? It would be gross again. We have to constantly live the principles
of faith and repent of our sins. By coming to church each week and
taking the sacrament we renew the covenants we made at baptism. We
commit to living as Christians each and every day. We pray and study the
scriptures to make sure our light and we have the Holy Ghost with us.
Also, The Red Sox are the best baseball team. I heard some great news about them this week :)
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